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Prisoners are getting high on Spice-soaked stamps which are mailed to them from the outside.

Letters, drawings and photos are often impregnated with the drug and then ripped up and smoked by inmates wanting to get high.

But it has now been discovered that stamps are also being soaked in the class B drug.

Spice is being smuggled into the jail in stamps (Picture: Getty)

A recent report into the 920-capacity HMP Lowdham Grange said officers now use a Rapiscanner, a drug detection machine, to test all mail coming into the jail.

Any mail found to contain traces of drugs is destroyed, although it can be photocopied and passed on to prisoners at the jail where 60% of inmates are serving sentences of 10 years or more, and a third serving whole-life terms.

At least 49% of prisoners also said it was ‘easy’ to get drugs at the Serco-run jail.